So he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

As the night was ending, Jesus came to them walking on the sea.

When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’

Herod added this to them all: He locked up John in prison.

In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

He shouted with a powerful voice: “Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detested beast.

I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’

Even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night and finds them alert, blessed are those slaves!

(This was a man who had been thrown into prison for an insurrection started in the city, and for murder.)

But the officers who came for them did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,

For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

I was a stranger and you did not receive me as a guest, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

So Peter was kept in prison, but those in the church were earnestly praying to God for him.

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’

For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

But someone came and reported to them, “Look! The men you put in prison are standing in the temple courts and teaching the people!”